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My hands have been needing some limbering up for a while, so I started back into my tea set. I also started watching Bones, so I can have something to keep me company while I work. I like it. No idea why I have never really seen it before, but I’m sure it’s my fault, haha.

Thanks to ups and downs, I managed to get the saucer outlined completely in dark blue over the course of… well, what amounts to two afternoons. There’s also some light grey in there, which you can barely see right now. It’ll show up better later, when I get more colours in there.

Looking forward to this weekend, but also kind of nervous. I got a miracle rheumatologist appointment for tomorrow, and I still haven’t filled out all of the forms and things. And I’m borrowing my mum’s Handicapped Parking pass until I can get mine. No idea how long it’ll take me to get used to looking for and actually using those spaces. My cousin is also graduating and having a related open house the following day, which we have also planned for our fabled hot springs trip.

For some reason, I just don’t feel talkative or wordy right now. Maybe I’m in too introspective a mode. Or not enough of one.

I could explain that I’m doing a cute little dolphin cross-stitch for my friend Amy. That I started it today and although I made up my own crappy and impatient version of the back stitch, I finished the major outline.

At last, I finished the griffin and I can start wondering what to do next.

I do have my teapots, but that won’t be quick.

Then again, there is some writing that I have to do. It’s the reason that I didn’t post on the weekend. 2500 words on Saturday and then a measly 1000 on Sunday. It’s a long chapter, so it’s not done yet. I’d like to finish it today, but that isn’t likely.

I just have the single stitches to go over and then I am done. Unless I can bring myself to get a white or grey and do more. But I like this two-toned guy. It’s been fun and hopefully I will have this done by Sunday.

I’m just making a quick picture post to show that I’ve between able to get a little bit done today. I finished the gold front of the griffin, and started on the blue half. Right now it looks like blue jeans, which bugs me, but at the same time it’s kind of hilarious.

My brother and his girlfriend came by, and we all played Arkham Horror. I sewed while we played, and funnily enough, we had a rare win.

I’m going to have to get some very light grey or white and some lighter red so that I don’t have those blank areas anymore. I think it’ll look nicer if everything is even. But then, I have OCD, so I could just be ridiculous.

Sigh. It’s been a great day, but the people in the flat upstairs are being obnoxious. It’s after midnight and they’re taking so loudly that I feel like an eavesdropper. Management just circulated a newsletter informing tenants that our community has quiet hours that begin at 22:00 and end at 10:00. I guess the people upstairs think that weekends are exempt.

Not the best way to end a post, but they are really incredibly loud and Swype is dropping my intended words in favour of total gibberish.